Aswad Ayinde, a.k.a. Eric McGill, 51, goes on trial for raping five of his nine daughters and making them pregnant. "He said the world was going to end, and it was just going to be him and his offspring and that he was chosen," his ex-wife, Beverly, testified at a recent hearing.
Ayinde, believed to possess a major-league Messianic complex, is a proponent of homeschooling with no known connections to the Republican Party, East Asia, or Scandinavia who describes himself as a film-maker and soft-drink entrepreneur.
Many of the alleged rapes took place when the family was living in an abandoned funeral home in Paterson, New Jersey.
